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NATURE NOTES 
Small Garden While, Black-veined or Ilawlhorn, Green-veined, Clouded Yellow, 
Pale Clouded Yellow, Wood White, Bath White, Sulphur, and Marbled White. 
He described the variation of wing-markings in the sexes, and gave details of 
the larval and chrysalis stages of each species. 
On the day following most of the members paid a visit to the Gardens of the 
Zoological .Society, Regent’s Park. 
On Friday, September 2, the members met at Brunswick Hall, New South- 
gate, when extracts from some of the best-known works of the late Rev. J. G. 
Wood were read and discussed. The favourite books appeared to be “ Common 
Objects of the Country” and “ Our Garden Friends and Foes,” judging from the 
nuiriber of readings chosen from those works. This meeting was so interesting 
that it was arranged that similar studies should be taken on P'riday, September l6. 
Haslemere Microscope and Natural History Society announces 
a Talk about Birds, by Miss Pitcairn, on October to ; a lecture on Invisible 
Light and Wireless Telegraphy, by Mr. W. Lynd, on October 25 ; a members’ 
evening on November 8 ; and lectures on Liquid Air, by Mr. T. C. Hepworth, 
on November 22 ; on Wind, Rain and Storm, by Mr. T. P. Newman, on December 
6, and by Mr. A. F. Ferguson, on Fairy Tales, on December 10. 
FISLD CLUB RAMBLES. 
On August 20 we paid our annual vidt to Newlands Corner, near Guildford. 
A party of nineteen assembled at Clandon Station, and the walk over the downs was 
greatly enjoyed. The route has been so fully described in the various accounts 
of previous rambles that any further details are unnecessary. The return walk 
was vui the old world village of Merrow, and Clandon Park, the seat of the Earl 
of Onslow. 
August 27. — Twenty-two Selbornians met Mr. W. Percival Westell, 
F.R. H.S., M.B.O.U., at Bricket Wood, a district hitherto unexplored. It was 
a most beautiful day, but with just that first flush of autumn in the air which made 
rambling delightful. P'ors-aking the usual habitat at Bricket Wood of holiday- 
makers, with its attendant miniature railway, cocoa-nut shies, itinerant vendors 
of ice-cream and other paraphernalia, the party, under Mr. Westell’s guidance, 
made their way through lanes and meadows to the banks of the rivers Ver and 
Colne, indeed struck the rivers just where the latter joins the former, and thereafter 
becomes the Colne. The absolute quietude of this pretty sylvan scene was much 
appreciated. On the way towards the time-worn wooden bridge several trout 
were espied, and a short stay on the bridge revealed minnows (not sticklebacks), 
dace, roach, and other fish. Hereabouts the water-vole (so often erroneously 
referred to as the water-rat) is exceedingly abundant, although none of the clean 
herbivorous little animals were observed on this occasion. Across the verdant 
meadows skirting the stream it was delightful walking, and then, striking little- 
used Hertfordshire lanes, the party reached the village of Aldenham, the hedge- 
rows on the way being festooned with the fast-seeding Traveller’s Joy, and in 
the ditches the bright patches of colour thrown off by the red fruit of the Cuckoo 
Pint did not escape attention. 
Ample justice having been done to tea at the “ Chequers,” Aldenham, the 
churchyard and church were visited. The tomb from out of which four sycamore 
trees are growing (some two hundred years old) was shown to the party by the 
obliging clerk, and the sacred edifice within had many interesting features, old 
chests, brasses, a rood screen, tombs, &c., and the party were bid God-speed by 
a special peal of bells from the church tower. Across Aldenham Park, past 
Aldenham Abbey, pleasingly wreathed with creepers, the Selbornians re-crossed 
the Ver and entered Munden Park, the beautifully situated seat of the Hon. A. 11 . 
Holland- Hibbert. Here the gardens and grounds were visited under the able 
guidance of Mr. Cox, the gardener. The cedar walk, flower-beds of Cherry Pie, 
pink Ivy Geraniums, Begonias, Nasturtiums, &c., were a feast of colour, and a 
hurried visit was paid to the greenhouses, kitchen garden, &c. The house was 
next entered and the collection of birds and fish in the spacious hall attracted 
much attention. The panelling in the billiard-room made from oak from the 
piles of the old bridge at Newcastle, and the mantelpiece carved out of a tree 
found in the Severn Tunnel, were esjrecially admired, as also the fine pictures 
in the dining-room, of Charles I., the Creation, and other subjects. The many 
treasures of this pleasant Hertfordshire mansion were lovingly examined, and on 
